The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research (Hardcover)

Contents Preface: A Look at the Mosaic of Qualitative Family Research

• Introduction: Showcasing Qualitative Family Research
• Part I: Research Reports
• Letters in the Attic: Private Reflections of Women, Wives, and Mothers
• Document Analysis: The Contrast Between Official Case Records and the Journal of a Woman on Welfare
• Bahamian Family Life as Depicted by Wives’ Tales and Other Old Sayings
• Egalitarianism and Oppression in Marriage: The Effects of Research on Researchers
• African-American Adolescent Women: Perceptions of Gender, Race, and Class
• Mama Still Sparkles: An Elder Role Model in Long-Term Care
• Discovering Women’s Work: A Study of Post-Retirement Aged Women
• Using Pattern Matching and Modified Analytic Induction in Examining Justice Principles in Child Support Guidelines
• Part II: Learning To Be Qualitative
• Learning to be Interpretive: Hermeneutics and Personal Texts
• Learning to Teach Qualitative Research: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher
• Research and Practice: A Reflexive and Recursive Relationship--Three Narratives, Five Voices
• Part III: Essays on Methodologies
• An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Service Use Among Ethnically Diverse Low Income Families
• The Composite Biography as a Methodological Tool for the Study of Childhood in History
• Family(in ital)Worlds(in ital)and Qualitative Family Research: Emergence and Prospects of Whole-Family Methodology
• Narrative Accounts, Generative Fathering, and Family Life Education
• Money, Marriage, and the Computer
• Reflexivity and Qualitative Family Research: Insider’s Perspectives in Bereaving the Loss of a Child
• Index
• Reference Notes Included